reports from cannes the summit could become the scene of a major standoff. it's your crowds versus euro skeptics at this year's g. twenty basically the camp summit has been hijacked by this euro crisis after the greek prime minister dropped a bombshell saying that his country would hold a referendum on whether or not to make cuts and accept this latest batch of bailouts being pushed by germany and france well the greek prime minister was summoned and told by engler merkel nicolas sarkozy the host of this year's summit of the i.m.f. and the european central bank that basically the country needs to play by their rules or get out of the euro zone saying that his decision to hold this referendum was unilateral other to change the psychological situation of the euro crisis but some of the analysts we've been speaking to say in a very sarcastic way it will gone through big the greek people should be the ones to just find the fate of their country perish the thought the people who are the victims of the various so-called rescue packages that the e.u. and the i.m.f.

and the e.c.b. of cooked up for the last eighteen months or so perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things while some still think no matter what the outcome here in cannes but for greece the outcome in the end will be the same i believe that the greeks will be forced into accepting whatever a sturdy measures or whatever bailout packages are dropped in their laps brussels and the g twenty the emerging economies were meeting of course in this year's g. twenty including russia have been saying for years that the financial system has to be completely remodelled of course in a global sense now we have people in america in europe france the world coming out and find to their leaders that something needs to be changed so certainly today we will be hearing some criticism perhaps of these emerging economies of course are a big part of the g. twenty summit perhaps not hearing their voices but as much as the g. seven the g.

twenty of course created at the height of the. two thousand and eight financial crisis solved those global economic problems but the questions being asked what has changed and will the voices of these emerging economies this time round for the reporting from can at least in our arts. hopes are on high among euro zone leaders that emerging economies including china will be able to help the struggling block beijing based correspondent sharon fan sand says if china agrees to come to the rescue it'll come at a price for europe. it looks like china will likely be asking for some major concessions one route for china's funding of the bailout fund would go through the i am master and i am i find now that i am at historically has been dominated by the united states and european powers and developing countries have long argued for greater voting power and more of a voice in the i.m.f. so it's possible that china would demand greater voting powers within the i.m.f. for having its money go through the i.m.f. to the euro zone and so that's one thing and that of course would diminish the

influence of western powers and i am not find another thing that china may ask for is greater opportunities for foreign direct investment into europe and i that means sensually buying companies technology companies and so on and europe and the west so if china decides to help out the help out the euro zone in a crisis china will use every bit of its leverage that it can right now china has all the money and as one analyst put it china is right now the banker to the world china's influence is only such a grow and i think what we're seeing right now is you're seeing you're i've been in the united states and a state of crisis because of the forces of globalization and perhaps animal and a larger scale you're seeing a shift of power and a shift and influence both economic power and political influence to the east and to china. in the next hour about its cars or its d.c. herber discuss whether some legends of pop may have made a better job of fixing the financial turmoil than bankers and politicians. and

yoko ono were actually watching the kaiser report during their famous bed in in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and you see you know this is a unique perspective not very many people look at this shot from that time but as you can see they were also saying all we are saying is let the banks fail and kaiser karma at the time nobody thought to look at the full three sixty you have the exact look at some of the posters on the wall like make love not dead now. now suddenly in the air two thousand and eleven john and yoko were clever buoyant they saw john was a visionary he saw the future he knew it was coming. russian businessman victor boot been found guilty of trafficking arms to terrorists by a new york jury who was arrested in thailand three years ago and later after

several attempts by the us extradited in two thousand and ten or he's married important i has the latest from new york. just one day after deliberations began a jury of twelve handed down that verdict and the verdict is that they found a russian businessman businessman victor boot guilty on all the charges that were leveraged against him by the united states and those charges include conspiring to kill americans are conspiring to kill u.s. officials trafficking rockets and also he was charged with supplying arms to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia an organization the united states deems as terrorists now this this trial of victor boot went on for about three weeks but his presence here in the united states has garnered a lot of attention as we've been reporting the u.s. fought very hard to get victor victor boot extradited from thailand to the

u.s. over a year ago but that fight was was taking place since mr who was arrested during a sting operation in thailand in march two thousand and eight. has pled not guilty on all the charges and he still maintains his innocence his attorney albert diane did speak to the press following today's events that took place in court so this is not the end that he still has a chance that we have a chance to will again we can appeal to those judge. that the verdict was rendered against the weight of the evidence but then we can also proceed to the united states court of appeals but we are disappointed at this word now that he's been found guilty on these charges he faces a sentence of anywhere between twenty five years and life in prison george map an investigative journalist who attend to be hearing says who was too shocked to react to the news. the case against vick the boot for all practical purposes case closed . albert diane after the jury was dismissed and victor boot just stood there

basically seen as it is as if he was in shock he didn't we act whatsoever in any way as that as if he was lifeless da operation relentless was you know targets of subic to boot by any means necessary and it was it was done on several different continents and they had d.n.a. informant highly paid da informants dea agents and pro conspirators so once they have him here now it is almost impossible to i think you know he'll ever leave the united states russia has repeatedly criticized bush extradition from thailand to the us as quote extreme injustice but under u.s. law it's possible to have ducked anyone who is deemed to be a threat according to international extradition lawyer douglas mcnabb. there is u.s. supreme court authority that says that it is ok. to go into a foreign country and in contravention of that foreign countries law kidnap an

individual and bringing to the u.s. to stand trial in the u.s. and the fact that that individual was kidnapped in contravention of local law does it is not the by use those to have the indictment which i see. that potentially issues could be raised with regard to be appeal i'm not hopeful that those who are going to be successful issues given the state of the u.s. supreme court authority with regard to extradition i think we're beyond. still with us here on r t still ahead plans to target gang violence get a mixed response in the u.k. . tom but it's not looking at the mill cool riots. that we look at why many are critical of the proposals from the youth club leaders members and monitor their messages as a way to prevent street riots. and international criminal court at the hague will probe nato bombings in libya over allegations of war crimes. but first in the

u.s. all eyes were on oakland where a rally of thousands of anti-corporate protesters paralyze one of the country's major ports that follows last week's violent dispersal of the demonstrators camp by police that's all former u.s. marine severely injured our correspondent lucy cough and i was at the center of it all in the protest lockport she filed this report from oakland. we're here at the port of oakland where the occupy wall street protesters have successfully shut down the porch the crowd you see behind me is gathered here because one of the workers tried to speak through the crowd almost running over several protesters trying to get through the human mind the human barricade the protesters surrounded the car venting him from going he is now backing out but a lot of folks here furious because again this was a predominantly peaceful march hundreds of people sorry thousands of people had gathered here most no police presence and so these kinds of tactics these kind of aggressive tactics driving through the crowd plowing through the crowd i really uncalled for and very very surprising here in light of how quiet it has been and

again the port of oakland has effectively been shut down and several thousand people marched from downtown oakland onto this area they shut down all of the gates effectively sending a warning shot they say to the so-called one percent of the corporate owners of the ports trying to hurt the the top only to where it hurts the most in the pocket in the economic sense whether or not this these kinds of tactics are going to be repeated at other occupy wall street movements remains to be seen but it is quite interesting to sort of note the contrast between the having handed tactics employed by the oakland police department just about a week ago when we saw the very serious crap down that are resulted in several hundred arrests and an injury to one iraq war veteran as well as other protesters with a very very peaceful and yet massive demonstration here that saw almost no police presence that successfully and effectively shut down the sport i think that at the very least is going to be a new tool in the arsenal of the occupy wall street movement they'll see sort of

the power that folks have to organize on short notice and to take out these kinds of actions that you know can't really be ignored regardless of whether you stand for or against this issue in a sack that's like me is that affect the pocketbooks of the large corporations that do get noticed i think that protesters will sort of learn a lesson from that or perhaps for that another. reporting from downtown oakland the word about plans for our team. lucy is keeping us updated on the latest developments with her twitter feed you can check out the news from the heart of unfolding events in california now taking a look at the streets hit by the protest also posting pictures of a shattered bank window covered with boards follow the events in oakland on her twitter feed and already tweets at r t underscore. with the influence of social networks a growing especially at times of an arrest of britain plans to use it against protesters following the summer's massive riots making youth club workers spy on

their members is among the controversial proposals in cuba including monitoring messages but as artie's laura smith reports from london the plan could cause total isolation for potential troublemakers. the reality of life in east london young teens take part in a workshop on gang violence but the government laid the blame for all guests riots firmly at the door of gangs one london solicit talking about making youth work has spy on them members and monitor their social network activities and i think suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p. for some of that was placed says it's not the technology to play when you had drugs in this country in the twelfth century when there was no and that there was no. text message so it is not so that's you know tom but it's not looking at the real causes of riots rather than. the message and that's the real possibility it will

backfire the some young people being used a safe haven in the middle east. and message monitoring could undermine the impatient relationship between welfare and vulnerable teen making them less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to guide. and ultimately crying and violence during the riots. social networks like twitter and blackberry messenger were used by rioters to pinpoint the next location in marked for destruction the government went to spar is proposing shutting down the services while two men were jailed for four years each for inciting rioting on facebook but teens say spying risks isolating the very people they're trying to help that have. these type of things that are undoubtedly social issues and solving that requires walking a fine line between coming down hard on troublemakers and preserving civil

liberties for everyone but it's clear that this measure which would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to enforce could also cost the trust and goodwill of the same at risk youth the author of jesus so concerned about laura smith r.t. london. don't forget our web site where there's plenty more of our top stories online here's what's a click away right now israel's military test fires a missile reportedly capable of delivering a warhead day part of the middle east as far and as far as europe plus. taking bears a family of animals in russia's far east takes to the highways asking locals for food check out the footage in full on our website or to doug.

nato's actions in libya will be investigated for alleged war crimes by the international criminal court at the hague according to the libyan health department and nato airstrikes killed more than one thousand civilians the international court will assess the actions of all sides during the conflict we while i was the new leaders appear to tend more to true real law than democracy the west could be disappointed with the results of its intervention michael scheuer a former cia intelligence officer says it's and inevitable consequence. the media is very childish in many ways believing you can build a democracy in six months or six years the americans and the british have been at it for eight hundred years and so now that it's turning out to be a mistake that the islam is certain power in tunisia they're going to come to power in libya the media is running away from the story and on top of that american leaders are not unlike the leaders that were in moscow during soviet times they believe in the inevitability of democracy everywhere just is as marxism was it once

believed to be inevitable and as a result they're upset in power structures centuries old and they're going to pay for it by an increased power among islamists and by civil war in those countries. turning out to some other stories making headlines across the globe the arab league says syrian authorities have agreed to you. of the seven month political crisis in the country the proposal urges the government to remove tags from the streets and turn to negotiation with the opposition within a fortnight it's the latest in a string of international efforts to halt turmoil that's claimed more than three thousand lives since march. in argentina a freight train slammed into a school bus killing seven children at an assistant director dozens more were injured when the bus with more than forty people aboard tried to cross the tracks the train dragged a vehicle for hundreds of metres before it finally came to a halt and investigation into the cause of the accident is under way. and are one step closer to establishing its own space station for the first time the nation

successfully docked two orbiting spacecraft and unmanned vehicle launched earlier this week hooked up with the space lab already circling the planet china had launched its own program after a pita requests to join the sixteen nations international space station were denied . and speaking with skyward affairs eighteen months on the red planet exiting one of the most exciting space experiments in recent history drawing to a close on friday the mars five hundred crew makes a symbolic landing on earth after a simulated mission to mars in the moscow region r.t. so b. shevardnadze asked the head of the project why only men were taken aboard the full interview coming up in about ten minutes here's a peek. we did not make you into the candidates six so make distinctions between men and women we looked at the level of proficiency the character traits the ability to work on a team and many of the coolant sees. me it knew there were different women

but personally i would be serious about a woman in such conditions because a man can break his daily routine much more easily than a woman that opposed to his private life family and even the professional career but woman cannot afford to lose so much time she should never stop collecting coins . five hundred days on a voyage to the. a breakthrough in space travel. returned from the red planet. mars five hundred touched down. finally in this news block twenty five years on the victims of india's worst ever industrial disaster are still coping with its aftermath thousands of people were poisoned it would end noxious gas leak for a plant owned by a us company union carbide now they claim to have suffered even more as pharmaceutical corporations use the opportunity to test dangerous experimental drugs on them artes pretreated takes

a look. nineteen eighty four bhopal india thirty tons of toxic gas leak from the union carbide corp pesticide plant killing around twenty thousand people many instantly even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it i clutched when children drugged my wife and mother to pull to the bus station everyone was screaming room room experts say union carbide had faulty equipment poorly trained employees and in adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter managers were bailed out and flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and they're angry that i am again ok today thousands like

srivastav still suffer there that will we will very healthy before the gas leaks to the place of the left of this incident we became very sick little house never improved after the leak many indians were wary of foreign companies but it turned them into prime candidates for clinical trials they thought they were getting treatment but doctors often used experimental drugs without them knowing the patients apparently consented by signing papers in english they didn't understand and many say they never signed anything at all for each participant in a clinical trial the doctor received around two thousand dollars this is bhopal memorial hospital the place where the victims from the gas leak of nineteen eighty-four were treated it's also the place where clinical trials of medications took place about eighty percent of those are believed to have been done on gas victims r t obtained documents that show at least six. trial programs that took

place in bhopal between two thousand and four and two thousand and eight is profoundly ironic that of the victims of the worst chemical disaster in which some of the largest pharmaceutical largest multinational corporations that in war a get free victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations and documents show that at least eleven people who are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs today srivastav still waits for justice. the rule because of the medicine i'm slowly losing my sight i've lost my appetite i cannot work from home either and i suffer from breathlessness. left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india business up next where he will stay with us here on r.t. .

hello and a very warm welcome to your business update russia's leading banks and russian agricultural buying increasing rates for deposits in order to encourage consumers to bring more cash to lenders the maximum rate is because now it's wrong seven percent but that's still lower than in smaller banks which started raising rates in september some analysts say the banks are preparing for a new wave of financial crisis and liquid squeeze which attains fourth from loose trading says the banks have a lot of assets on their balance sheets but cannot sell them in the current environment. it's cheaper to take money by increasing deposits or increasing. funding from the central pike it's cheaper to do that than to sell all the securities in a depressed market i don't think there's

a problem in asserting the banks themselves i mean their lending portfolio i think the problem is invested surety support phone. meanwhile the country's central bank has become providing unsecured loans to lend us to say they've got them against a possible lack of cliquish it's also trying to reduce banks dependence on overseas borings analysts say global economic uncertainty makes it harder for local lenders to raise tough abort. let's have a look at the markets oil as low as the u.s. but ended today reason with no new policy announcements like so it is trading at over ninety one dollars per barrel while branches holding at one hundred eight dollars per barrel. in asia the market so also in the red with investors in wait for the missing off the curb with twenty parties will try to work together in order to help your continued its debt crisis financials are among the hardest hit in the cold calling for the sec to seen as one of the most closely linked to europe's

troubles industrial and commercial bank of china is done more than half percent this hour. and here most of the markets have saw this thursday's trading session in the negative territory the r.t.s. is down around two percent while the maya six is losing more than one and a health percent role in much from their earning capital previews the days right. following on from the fed's decision last night i think. to the e.c.b. this is the first day of the first time when the new head of the e.c.b. will be communicating with the we can all feel. there is hope. he will touch rights to signal that he will be different from the from his predecessor and not quite so much on inflation i think if that comes through is going to be good for risk assets everywhere and in particular russia. russian companies saw among those most likely to pay bribes while doing business abroad that's according to the latest survey released by the end to corruption watchdog transparency international

the current house evaluated bribery activity in twenty eight countries that questioned more than three thousand holding companies russia showed the worst results with the number of people offering by having at least over the last three years the writing is led by this forbes the head of transparency international in russia says corruption is very much a two way street. business but it's got a pretty export business does not work in isolation it works with suppliers buyers mediators office rent and involves infrastructure companies and here we are talking about business to business corruption foreign businesses never come directly to the authorities they work real local middle companies for example consulting companies logistics etc these local companies give advice is to investors and importers how to behave in the country but as you have but the and that's it for now europe today it will bring you a full update in less than one as time. if. i

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ten thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines leaders of the world's biggest economies meet for a g. twenty summit where center stage is captured by the euro crisis now intensified by the greek decision to hold of bailout referendum germany and france. till the country decides its course. of thousands in oakland causes a major port shutdown and disrupt business in the californian city anti-corporate protests are growing out of public discontent with economic inequality is further fueled by last week's violent dispersal demonstrated. russian businessman found guilty of arms trafficking by u.s. jury facing life in jail but he claims he's innocent but the merchant of death was arrested three years ago and extradited to the u.s. last autumn. reporting about the ambitious experiment simulating a mission to mars and how it will come to an end friday r.t. spoke with the head of process the.